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Christiaan Barnard will soon have to put down his scalpel because of arthritis in his hands, but he is just warming up as a writer. The co-author of a couple of novels with medical themes, the South African heart surgeon last week began a weekly column for Johannesburg'...
Produced by Osaka's Ono Pharmaceutical Co., the new suppository drug is based on one of the prostaglandins, hormone-like compounds once believed to originate in the male prostate gland. Researchers have long realized that certain prostaglandins could induce contractions in smooth muscles, including those of the womb. Soon...
In 1973, however, the building was declared a city landmark, and restoration began in 1976 under the direction of Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. Philanthropist Enid A. Haupt funded the entire cost of the renovation with a gift of $5 million. The result is both handsome and ingenious. Even a new...
Throughout, the author displays a certainty about what is concrete in ''ordinary life" that would have baffled 2,000 years' worth of philosophers. All of his arguments hang on the Tinkertoy division between what is real and good (trees, marshes, noble savages) and what is deceitful (all...
"I talked to Mary Lyn about twice a week on the phone. I'd just call her up, and there would never be any change, he would have just lost more weight, and his features were more deformed. He'd gone into the position with his elbows bent and his...